🎯 B2 ENGLISH – CHAPTER 5, LESSON 4
(Designed for Afridemia students preparing for advanced communication, IELTS/TOEFL readiness, and academic success)

🌟 Lesson Objectives

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
✅ Use modality accurately to express facts, opinions, and desires.
✅ Discuss and interpret numbers and statistics confidently in context.
✅ Differentiate between various types of adverbs to enhance expression and clarity.
✅ Understand and apply comment and viewpoint adverbs to present perspectives naturally in speech and writing.

🧭 How to Use This Lesson

💡 Step-by-step learning flow:
1️⃣ Start with the Vocabulary Section – learn and practice new expressions.
2️⃣ Move to the Grammar Section – explore key rules and usage examples.
3️⃣ Finish with the Practice Section – test yourself through listening and video comprehension.
4️⃣ Complete your “My Score” tracker after each section to record progress.

📝 Tip: Keep a learning notebook or digital journal to summarize what you learn in each unit.

📚 VOCABULARY SECTION

Unit 70: Modality – Expressing Facts, Opinions, and Desires

Introduction:
This unit helps you express certainty, possibility, and emotions using modal verbs like must, might, could, should, and would. Learn how to show your attitude or degree of belief in what you’re saying.

💬 Tip: When unsure, use might or could instead of must — it makes your statements sound more polite and flexible.

🔗 📥 Download Vocabulary PDF (Units 70–71)

Unit 71: Numbers – Statistics and Quantity

Introduction:
Learn the language of data and measurement — essential for academic writing, presentations, and IELTS graph descriptions. Understand how to talk about proportions, trends, and comparisons.

💬 Tip: When presenting data, pair numbers with adjectives:

“A significant increase,” “A steady decline,” “A small percentage.”

🧩 GRAMMAR SECTION

Unit 76: Adverbs of Place, Direction, Indefinite Frequency, and Time

Introduction:
Master adverbs that tell where, when, and how often actions happen. These make your communication more specific and fluent.

💬 Tip: Keep adverbs near the verbs they modify to avoid confusion!

Unit 77: Degree Adverbs and Focus Adverbs

Introduction:
These adverbs add emphasis or precision — like really, quite, extremely, only, even. They help express how strong or specific something is.

💬 Tip: Remember: really intensifies feelings (really tired), while very intensifies facts (very cold).

Unit 78: Comment Adverbs and Viewpoint Adverbs

Introduction:
Learn to share your opinion or perspective clearly with adverbs like fortunately, obviously, technically, personally.

💬 Tip: Use comment adverbs at the start of a sentence to sound fluent and confident:

“Honestly, I didn’t expect that result.”

🔗 📥 Download Grammar PDF (Units 76–78)

🎧 ONLINE PRACTICE SECTION

🧠 Practice Focus

Improve your listening comprehension, cultural awareness, and contextual vocabulary through authentic media: interviews, city life stories, and festivals.

🎯 Topics Covered

• Living in London 🏙️

• Living on My Own 🏡

• Words on the Street – The Tempest & Bestival 🎭🎶

🎬 Living in London

Introduction:
Explore what life in one of the world’s most dynamic cities is like! This activity improves your understanding of urban vocabulary and listening for detail.

💬 Tip: While listening, note down key adjectives people use to describe city life (e.g., busy, lively, diverse).

🏡 Living on My Own

Introduction:
Hear personal experiences about independence, budgeting, and adapting to change. Practice identifying tone and attitude in spoken English.

💬 Tip: Focus on phrasal verbs related to daily routines (get by, move out, settle in).

🎭 Words on the Street: The Tempest & Bestival

Introduction:
These videos bring Shakespeare’s The Tempest to modern life, connecting classical art with real-world language. Learn how emotion and tone shape meaning.

💬 Tip: Watch twice — first for general meaning, second for language focus (expressions and pronunciation).

🔗 📥 Download Practice PDF (Audio & Video Activities)

💬 Final Thought

“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.”
— Rita Mae Brown

✨ Keep practicing, stay curious, and let every word you learn take you one step closer to fluency!